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Patented Feb. 29, 1916.

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@witnesses HENRY LEIMAN, OF TAMPA, FLORIDA.

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Speciicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 29, 1916.

Application filed April 17, 1915. Serial No. 22,121.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY LEIMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tampa, in the county of Hillsboro and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention 'relates to boxes, and more especially to those of paper which are lined; and the object of the same is to produce a. box more particularly intended for cigars and whose body is non-absorbent while its lining and its heads are absorbentv so as to take up the excess moisture in the cigars and yet retain it to prevent them from becoming dried out.

Another object is to so construct the parts that the body may be made of very thin and cheap material, braced and held in place by solid heads of wood.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the heads with the sheet wound partially about the head showing the manner of forming the body and cover.v

Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the two heads in position relative to the sheet and the cover partly slitted away from the body. Fig. 3 shows in section the body and cover slightly removed therefrom with the lining material being slipped into place. Fig. 4 shows in perspective the body already lined and the cover spaced slightly therefrom. Fig. 5 shows in perspective the box practically completed with the covering sheet in position and secured except at the corners. Fig. 6 is a sectional view through the completed box. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view through the completed box taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

The method of producing the improved box which forms the subject-matter ofthis application resides in employing two heads 10 and 11 similar in all respects having rabbets 12 formed about their peripheries, and winding about such heads a sheet 13, and pasting the overlapped edges as indicated at 14. The ends of the sheet 13 are pasted or cemented into the rabbets of both the heads 10 and 11 to produce the structure shown in section in Fig. 2, after which a slit 15 1s cut along the dotted line 16 to produce a body and a cover portion as shown at Figs. 3 and 4. The cover portion being removed, a lining 17 is slipped into the body of the box, such lining being so proportioned that its edges abut as shown at 18.

- As the present box is designed for packaging and marketing cigars, it is desirable that the ends or heads 10 and 11 and the lining sheet 17 be composed of such wood as is usually employed for packaging cigars, for instance, as cedar. The lining 17 is slidably inserted to touch the bottom head 10, but is longer than the body to form a iange 19 which extends above the upper end of the sheet 13 as shown more'particularly at Fig. 3. As the skirt of the cover is a part of the body sheet 13, it is obvious that the lining 17 fitting snugly within the body of the box will also fit snugly within the cover of the box to form a flange to hold such cover in position-the relation of the body, flange and cover being shown more particularly at Fig. 4.

The box having been lled with the intended material, as with cigars, an outer wrapper 20 is pasted about the box, thereby uniting the body and cover to prevent' the accidental removal of the cover. Before winding the sheet 20 about the box a thread 21 is wound about in the crack between the'cover and the body, and the covering sheet 20 pasted over such thread with the end extending outwardly as shown at Fig. 5. When the-box is to be opened, the end of the thread is pulled outwardly and around the box, thereby cutting the sheet 20 andreleasing' the cover from the body. With the placing of revenue stamps or the like over the dividing line between the cover and the body they will likewise be severed by the use of the thread 21 the same as cutting the sheet 20. i

When the box is constructed in the preferred manner, that is to say with the outer box and wrapper substantially non-absorbent and impervious to moisture while the lining is composed of ay veneer of red cedar which is absorbent, a function is provided which is novel in this construction. In the packaging of cigars, the cigars are placed in the 4packaggge in a moist condition and it is desirable to maintain the cigars in a moist condition but not in a condition of such moisture as will mold or decay. The cedar veneer lining being absorbent absorbs from the fresh cigars the moisture given o and by reason of the non-absorbent and impervious condition of the outer covering said lining retains such moisture in its pores until through the lapse of time the cigars have become somewhat dry when the cedargves off its moisture retaining the cigars in moist and merchantable condition for a long space of time, the action being the same as the action of a humidor. The initial taking up of the moisture of the cigars reduces the moisture to such a degree that the cigars do not mold or decay and the later giving off of such moisture retains the cigars in the degree in the condition of the required moisture. v

While the present invention is not limited to the construction of a boX with anonabsorbent and impervious exterior and absorbent interior or lining, the preferred form is of this nature.

I claim :e

As an articleof manufacture, a cigar boX v -rising above that of the paper sheet; a

cover composed of a solid block of wood having a rabbet around its edge and a paper skirt whose upper end is secured in such rabbet and whose edges are lapped and connected with each other, the skirt being of 'a size to pass over the upper end of the lining; and a wrapping sheet on the outer face of the body and skirtand extending across the line between them.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY LEIMAN.v

Witnesses:

CHRIS L. CHANCEY, KARL E. WHITAKER. 

